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Believing Badly, Damian Cox, Michael Levine
Believing Badly, Damian Cox, Michael Levine
Damian Cox
This paper explores the grounds upon which moral judgment of a person’s beliefs is properly made. The beliefs in question are non-moral beliefs and the objects of moral judgment are individual instances of believing. We argue that instances of believing may be morally wrong on any of three distinct grounds: (i) by constituting a moral hazard, (ii) by being the result of immoral inquiry, or (iii) by arising from vicious inner processes of belief formation. On this way of articulating the basis of moral judgment of belief it becomes clear that rational and epistemic norms do not exhaust the kinds …